Cultures of Hygiene: Interview with Claudia Liebelt
This interview with Claudia Liebelt was conducted by Mihir Sharma and was completed and edited between 25 and 29 May, […]
Claudia Liebelt
Claudia Liebelt is Lecturer of Social Anthropology and Heisenberg Fellow at the University of Bayreuth (Germany). Her research foci are in the Anthopology of the Body and the Senses, Political Anthropology, Gender and Sexualities, Care and Intimate Labour, as well as Islam and Secularity. She is interested in debates on the biopolitics of beauty and hygiene, embodied normativities, postsecularism and new materialities, with a regional focus on the Middle East and Turkey. Most recently, she embarked on a project on the "Olfactories of Hygiene". She has authored Caring for the 'Holy Land': Filipina domestic workers in Israel (Berghahn, 2011) and has edited a volume on Beauty and the norm: debating standardization in bodily appearance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Her second monograph on Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities is currently under review.